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Shrunken Head Lounge Surf Radio Show Running Time: 29 minutes 30 seconds Vote For Link Wray For The 2014 Rock-N-Roll Hall Of Fame http://www.rockhall.com/get-involved/interact/poll/ Legions of rock guitarists on every continent testify that the biggest bang of all was the first time they heard “Rumble” by Link Wray (1929-2005), a dangerous slab of reverberating power chords and raw distortion laid down in 1958. In the summer of “Purple People Eater,” “Witch Doctor” and “Patricia,” the rebellious sonic onslaught of “Rumble” cut through Top 40 radio like a steamroller. This was more than a decade before power chords even had a name; a decade after that, in the heat of the punk era, Wray’s collaboration with Robert Gordon left every retro-rockabilly guitarslinger in the dust. The impact of Link Wray, one of Rolling Stone’s "Top 100 Guitarists of All Time," can be heard in generations of American and British metal, punk, grunge, thrash and psychobilly rockers, all of whom have claim